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My lovely wife sends me a Christmas card: P.S. More cards here from smileecards.

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With apologies to Christmas carol purists, my latest Christian Science Monitor column offers up the twelve days of Christmas for our weak economy. I am no Jeff Foxworthy, so please forgive the poetic license and imprecise scanning. Oh, and kudos to my editor for letting me keep in the reference to Festivus. As the folks [...]

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Jared would be proud of me. Whenever I grab lunch to eat in my office, I head over to Subway for a six-inch Veggie Delite with provolone. Just 280 calories. Yum. Depending on my mood and workload, I usually gobble down my Subway lunch between 12:15 and 1:00pm. On Monday, though, I started eating at [...]

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The incomparable xkcd on incentives, morals, and TripAdvisor:   Here’s another favorite.

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Well, it certainly isn’t routine this time. Life was much simpler on the West Wing: This is a repost from May.

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Today’s humor break: Remy does the Debt Ceiling Rap (with some asides about monetary policy): Best line: “I got a monetary plan, and it involves a lot of toner.”

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In Washington’s economic circles, the only animals we usually have to worry about are hawks and doves. (And the occasional raccoon or vole.) If you’re doing development research in Ghana, however, things are more complicated.  Zipping from village to village on her motorcycle, my friend Liz has become intimately familiar with the behavior — often stochastic – of different [...]

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The Centers for Disease Control offers emergency preparedness tips with a sense of humor: So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the [...]

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ht: Bruce Bartlett

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Over at the Moment of Truth project (a continuation of the president’s fiscal commission), Adam Rosenberg and Marc Goldwein make a compelling case that the government should use a different inflation measure when calculating cost of living increases and indexing the tax code: Maintaining purchasing power in spending programs and indexing various parts of the tax code [...]

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